Re: Open Sound System Driver error

[Nick Hastings <hastings@bmail.kek.jp>]

Hi,

* Joris Huizer <joris_huizer@yahoo.com> [030520 09:45]:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for your reply Nick!
> Unfortunately, the laptop currently has an
> 2.2.20-idepci version kernel (as the uname -r told me
> :-) )
> 
> Does this mean I will have to upgrade (as Tim said in
> another mail, the alsa-modules only contain
> alsa-modules-2.4.16-* and alsa-modules-2.4.20-* )
> I currently only did an installation using the first
> Debian cd, and an add-cdrom on the second one (the
> others still have to be burned) but no kernel image is
> in there so far.

Other option may be to "apt-get install alsa-source" and build the
alsa modules against your current kernel. However you will probably
need the kernel-headers-2.2.20-idepci package to do this.

Personally I would just upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel. YMMV.

Cheers,

Nick.

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